Kizuna Child-Parent Reunion

​Let’s give your child and Japan’s children a voice—together.

John Gomez has been invited to speak at PASG 2026 in Perth, Australia, one of the world’s leading international conferences on parental alienation.

This is a rare opportunity to bring the voices of children in Japan—and the reality of parental child abduction, family separation, and parental alienation —to leading psychologists, researchers, legal experts, and policymakers from around the world.

We are working for your child and every child in Japan who has been denied the chance to maintain a loving relationship with a parent.

We need your help to make sure their voices are heard.
We are fundraising to cover expenses for the conference in Australia.

Every donation, even 1000 yen, helps make this possible.

Please donate and share:
https://www.kizuna-cpr.org/donate
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I have been invited to speak at the Parental Alienation Study Group PASG 2026 8th International Conference on Parental Alienation. It will be held in Perth, Australia on October 11 – 13.
October 12 is Parental Alienation Awareness Day in Australia and New Zealand.

I am humbled to be a confirmed speaker among some of the world’s leading experts on parental alienation.
A photo and profile are on this event page.
https://eecw.eventsair.com/pasg2026/confirmed-speakers

We at Kizuna Child-Parent Reunion are organizing fundraising to cover expenses for this conference on Parental Alienation in Australia. There are registration fee, airfare, hotel, and miscellaneous travel expenses. To match those expenses, our target fundraising goal is 500,000 JPY ($3,125 USD at 160 JPY/USD). Please help us and the issue of parental alienation by donating what you can.

Those who donate 10,000 JPY or more may join a networking event that we are hosting on Sunday September 6 at 12 noon – 2:00 pm in Shibuya with the number of participants in the event depending on the capacity of the room and first come first served in terms of sequence of donation. Our special guest is Anastasiya Minkova who is featured in the CNN article published on July 12. Stay tuned for more details.

https://edition.cnn.com/2026/07/11/asia/japan-law-parental-child-abduction-intl-hnk-dst

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Parental alienation is an endemic, severe negative consequence of parental child abduction and a child’s loss of access to a parent. Hence, it is an important aspect of the issues we advocate for in Kizuna Child-Parent Reunion. PASG is one of the world’s leading organizations dealing with parental alienation, so this is a worthwhile international conference to participate in.

In July 2016, I joined the International Congress of Psychology and spoke in the group about parental alienation. My topic was parental alienation within the context of parental child abduction in Japan. One of the Australian participants in that group in 2016 is also an organizer of PASG 2026, so he invited me.
Here is a PowerPoint of my talk with Japanese translation.
https://www.kizuna-cpr.org/parental-alienation
 
This is the third year in a row that I have been invited to an international conference. In 2024, as chairperson of Kizuna Child-Parent Reunion (Kizuna CPR), I was chosen by the Hague Conference (HCCH) as one of seventeen people from around the world in civil society organizations to participate in a Hague Conference Forum on Domestic Violence and the Hague Abduction Convention. I served on the steering committee and spoke in South Africa in June 2024. In 2025, once again, I served on the steering committee and spoke at the second Hague Conference Forum on Domestic Violence and the Hague Abduction Convention in Brazil in October 2025. Here is a page describing the two Forums with links to proceedings and videos of the talk in Brazil and my response to a sharply worded question in the Q&A after the talk. My response was well received.

The advocacy was successful as the Hague Conference Council on General Affairs and Policy (CGAP) may take on my talking point for future consideration.

https://www.kizuna-cpr.org/forum-on-dv-hague-convention